Experimental Investigation on Heat Exchange and Separation Performance of an Annular Structured Internal Heat-integrated Distillation Column

In this paper heat exchange coefficient and separation efficiency of an annular structured internal heat-integrated distillation column (HIDiC) were experimentally measured. About 50% heat of the inner column could be transferred to the outer column. The overall heat exchange coefficient decreased with an increase in pressure ratio of the inner column and the outer column, but was little affected by the F-factor. The increase of the pressure ratio decreased obviously the separation efficiency of the outer column but had little effect on that of the inner column. (C) 2014 The Chemical Industry and Engineering Society of China, and Chemical Industry Press. All rights reserved.